Regional Participation

The participation by region was slightly higher in the US and lower in Europe than in 2018 but very close to 2017 participation.

• US/Canada, 40.6% (vs 36.6% last year)
• Europe, 33.3 (vs 37.5%)
• Asia, 12.1 (vs 11.7%)
• Latin America, 7.3 (vs 6.6%)
• Africa/MidEast, 4.5% (same)
• Australia/NZ, 2.3 (vs 3.1%)

Full Results and 3-year trends

The following table shows the poll results in detail.

KDnuggets 2019 Poll: What Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning software you used in the past 12 months for a real project?
Software (number of voters in 2019)	% voters in 2019 % voters in 2018 % voters in 2017
Python (1078)	65.8% 65.6% 59.0%
RapidMiner (839)	51.2% 52.7% 31.9%
R Language (764)	46.6% 48.5% 56.6%
Excel (571)	34.8% 39.1% 31.5%
Anaconda (556)	33.9% 33.4% 24.3%
SQL Language (538)	32.8% 39.6% 39.2%
Tensorflow (519)	31.7% 29.9% 22.7%
Keras (436)	26.6% 22.2% 10.7%
scikit-learn (418)	25.5% 24.4% 21.9%
Tableau (362)	22.1% 26.4% 21.8%
Apache Spark (345)	21.0% 21.5% 25.5%
Microsoft Power BI (217)	13.2% 12.5% 11.5%
XGBoost (208)	12.7% na na
Java (203)	12.4% 15.1% 15.5%
Hadoop: Open Source Tools (198)	12.1% 11.0% 16.8%
PyTorch (185)	11.3% 6.4% 3.4%
Microsoft SQL Server (184)	11.2% 13.8% 13.0%
KNIME (175)	10.7% 12.3% 21.0%
Other free analytics/data mining tools (145)	8.8% 8.3% 5.4%
SQL on Hadoop tools (138)	8.4% 10.2% 11.6%
Unix shell/awk (130)	7.9% 9.2% 10.8%
H2O.ai (117)	7.1% 6.1% 6.9%
C/C++ (116)	7.1% 6.8% 7.1%
Javascript (112)	6.8% na na
Weka (109)	6.7% 11.4% 10.8%
MATLAB (100)	6.1% 9.3% 8.3%
Apache Kafka (98)	6.0% na na
Other programming and data languages (94)	5.7% 6.9% 7.6%
SAS Base (93)	5.7% 5.5% 7.7%
Other Deep Learning Tools (92)	5.6% 4.9% 5.4%
IBM SPSS Statistics (87)	5.3% 8.0% 7.6%
Google Bigquery (86)	5.2% na na
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (77)	4.7% 5.5% 7.2%
Hadoop: Commercial Tools (74)	4.5% 5.7% 8.5%
Alteryx (66)	4.0% 4.0% 5.7%
QlikView (60)	3.7% 4.3% 4.7%
Scala (57)	3.5% 5.9% 8.3%
SAS Enterprise Miner (55)	3.4% 4.3% 6.2%
MLlib - Spark ML Library (52)	3.2% 3.8% 5.1%
Orange Data Mining (51)	3.1% 4.1% 4.2%
LightGBM (50)	3.1% na na
Amazon Machine Learning/SageMaker (43)	2.6% 3.3% 1.9%
Databricks Unified Analytics Platform (43)	2.6% 1.2% na
BigML (43)	2.6% 0.9% 1.1%
DeepLearning4J (41)	2.5% 3.4% 2.4%
Other paid analytics/data mining/data science software (40)	2.4% 2.4% 2.5%
IBM SPSS Modeler (39)	2.4% 4.9% 6.9%
fastai library (39)	2.4% na na
Dataiku (33)	2.0% 6.3% 8.0%
Apache Storm (31)	1.9% na na
IBM DSX/Watson Studio (31)	1.9% 4.5% 8.0%
Gnu Octave (30)	1.8% 2.1% 2.7%
Pentaho (29)	1.8% 1.6% 2.0%
Microsoft other ML/Data Science tools (29)	1.8% 1.3% 2.5%
CatBoost (29)	1.8% na na
JMP (28)	1.7% 1.7% 2.1%
Apache MXnet (28)	1.7% 1.5% 2.0%
Julia (28)	1.7% 0.7% 1.2%
Teradata (27)	1.6% 2.1% 2.7%
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (27)	1.6% 3.0% 3.7%
Theano (26)	1.6% 4.9% 6.5%
IBM Cognos (23)	1.4% 1.5% 2.4%
Stata (22)	1.3% 1.5% 1.3%
Google Cloud AutoML (21)	1.3% na na
MicroStrategy (21)	1.3% 1.7% 1.2%
DataRobot (21)	1.3% 1.3% 1.9%
Rattle Data Mining (21)	1.3% 2.0% 2.9%
Perl (21)	1.3% 1.0% 1.9%
Microsoft Machine Learning Server (20)	1.2% 2.1% 4.9%
TIBCO Spotfire (19)	1.2% 3.1% 2.8%
SAP Analytics/Predictive Analytics (18)	1.1% 1.4% 1.1%
Cloudera Data Science Workbench (18)	1.1% na na
Minitab/Salford Predictive Modeler (17)	1.0% 1.8% 2.1%
Mathematica (17)	1.0% 1.6% 1.6%
C4.5/C5.0/See5 (17)	1.0% 1.0% 1.4%
Solver (former XLMiner) (15)	0.9% 1.3% 0.7%
Torch (15)	0.9% 1.0% 1.3%
Flink (13)	0.8% na na
SAP HANA (13)	0.8% 1.3% 1.3%
TFLearn (12)	0.7% 1.1% 0.0%
Looker (10)	0.6% na na
Sqream (10)	0.6% na na
Caffe (10)	0.6% 1.5% 3.5%
WSO2 Stream Processor (9)	0.5% na na
Gurobi (9)	0.5% na na
Lisp (7)	0.4% 0.3% 0.4%
TIBCO Data Science (6)	0.4% 1.3% 0.5%
Sisense (5)	0.3% na na
BayesiaLab (5)	0.3% 0.6% 0.4%
Altair/Datawatch/Angoss (5)	0.3% 0.3% 0.7%
Vowpal Wabbit (5)	0.3% 0.4% 1.2%
Datameer (4)	0.2% na na
Oracle Data Science Platform (4)	0.2% 1.0% 1.8%
Domino Data Labs (4)	0.2% 0.1% 0.6%
Mode Analytics (4)	0.2% na na

Here are the results of the previous KDnuggets Polls on Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science Software:

• The 6 components of Open-Source Data Science/ Machine Learning Ecosystem; Did Python declare victory over R?, Jun 2018.
• Python eats away at R: Top Software for Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning in 2018 - Trends and Analysis, May 2018.
• New Leader, Trends, and Surprises in Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning Software Poll, 2017
• R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software, 2016
• R leads RapidMiner, Python catches up, Big Data tools grow, Spark ignites, 2015
• RapidMiner Continues To Lead, 2014
• RapidMiner and R vie for first place, 2013
• KDnuggets 2012 Poll: Analytics, Data mining, Big Data software used
• KDnuggets 2011 Poll: Data Mining/Analytic Tools Used
• KDnuggets 2010 Poll: Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used
• KDnuggets 2009 Poll: Data Mining Tools Used
• KDnuggets 2008 Poll: Data Mining Software Used
• KDnuggets 2007 Poll: Data Mining/Analytics Software Tools